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Credit: Schatz Lab, CSHL/JHU Cold Spring Harbor, NY - In cancer cells, genetic errors wreak havoc. Misspelled genes, as well as structural variations -- larger-scale...

CORVALLIS, Ore. -Rocky Mountain National Park provides habitat for not one, but two subspecies of the American pika, a species thought to be closely connected...

Credit: (Picture rotated 90 degrees: Nora Stingl, Rob Roelfsema, Anna Alova) 500 million years ago, the first plants living in water took to land. The...

Credit: Melanie Barth and Debbie Maizels Land plants, which split from their aquatic relatives 500 million years ago, are an extraordinarily diverse group of living...

Credit: University of Guelph New research from the University of Guelph is dispelling a commonly held assumption about climate change and its impact on forests...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A startup created by Purdue University professors is developing a sensor that can detect dangerous mosquito-borne tropical diseases faster and at...

ITHACA, N.Y.- Engineering cellular biology, minus the actual cell, is a growing area of interest in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It's known as cell-free protein...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, director of the university's Center for...

Credit: Wen Zhou, Harvard Medical School The human body is built for survival. Each one of its cells is closely guarded by a set of...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A four-protein biomarker blood test improves lung cancer risk assessment over existing guidelines that rely solely upon smoking history, capturing...

In an unexpected discovery, UCLA researchers have found that a gene previously known to control human metabolism also controls the equilibrium of bone and fat...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 12, 2018 -- Some cheeses are infamously smelly, giving off odors akin to fetid gym socks. With help...

Credit: Daniel Suter/Purdue University Some level of molecules linked to oxidative stress may be essential to health and development, according to new animal studies. Reactive...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Daniel Allen, is developing an intermittent river research coordination network of ecologists and hydrologists to better...

Credit: Hokkaido University The inclusion of taxon-specific sensitivity to a shifting climate helps us understand species distributional responses to changes in climate. Marine species in...